The reason they chose Antarctica is because the most often used flat earth model* has Antarctica as a ring on the “rim”.

They usually do acknowledge a 24h sun in the north existing based on that model because it would require the sun to remain central over the disc, which is geometrically not really an issue. However the southern 24h sun is not possible with that model. (Edit: Excluding some weird lensing effects or multiple suns, like some of them claim)

*Most of them will tell you they don’t have a model, because they don’t really know what “model” means.

Source: I watched too many SciManDan videos.

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Sorta. The function height(angle) needs to be continuous. From there it’s pretty clear why it works if you know the mean value theorem.

Indeed. Did you more or less know that or did you challenge yourself to a round of impromptu geoguessr?

Now you know what to post!

I wanna add to what other users already answered that this problem is not created by federation, only exacerbated.

If I’m mod of a community and I ban your Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world account, I cannot stop you from creating, e.g. Lost_My_M1nd@lemmy.world and coming back. Most servers have some barriers against spam account creation in place, but I’d wager you could easily create a handful of accounts on a server until they start to grip.

Even completely centralized platforms such as Twitter and Reddit are the same. You can easily ban/block evade a couple times per timeframe.

I think people have managed to get it to run on Android (no official English version was ever released on Mobile but there are good fan translations, all we had until this year on any platform.)

There is also a website that works on mobile and has a playable version of the fan translation hosted and is mostly complete but missing some details. (Edit: there you have to be careful not to slip into the wrong routes though.)

Fun fact about the VN: When Nasu wrote FSN, they originally did not want to include any H-Scenes, but Takeuchi, the artist, thought it wouldn’t sell otherwise. This lead to the 2004 release having some legendarily bad (and often memed) H-Scenes in them as Nasu is not really known for writing ero-stuff. Whether or not you want to read those or read any of the remade versions where they replaced the spicy stuff with more tame stuff is up to you.

As someone who does (sorta) get the Fate series, here’s a quick rundown for you or anyone else popping into this thread and who might be interested. Both on how it ended up like this and possible ways to get into the Fate franchise.

Quick history lesson to give some background on how it ended up like this: Kinoko Nasu’s Fate/Stay Night released as a visual novel in 2004 and is set in the same world as other works they’ve previously released (e.g. Tsukihime, Kara no Kyoukai) none of these are mandatory to understand FSN but can flesh out the universe, also called Nasuverse.
FSN has three routes called Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven’s Feel. They all split off very early on and branch in totally different ways. Now what made FSN special is that the three routes are meant to be experienced in that order as Unlimited Blade Works builds on what you learn in Fate. Heaven’s Feel builds on both Fate and Unlimited Blade Works. So to fully understand the original work in its intended form, one would need to experience the three routes in that order. The original release and MOST but not all rereleases force you to experience the routes in that order.

Now why did I write all this? It’s because FSN Fate never got a real adaptation. There is the Studio Deen adapation from 2006, which did mostly Fate and then mashed all three routes into one huge spoiler-mess towards the end that spoils the other two routes. This is the big thing stopping people from giving a clear answer to “Where do I even begin?”

In 2012 Ufotable released their adaptation of Fate/Zero, which is a prequel set 10 years before the events of FSN and co-written by Urobuchi (of Madoka fame) and Nasu. Sadly a lot of the plot points in FSN, especially in the later routes, are about finding out “what happened 10 years before now”, so this prequel does have some spoilers for those routes and vice versa.
Later on Ufotable then also adapted *Unlimited Blade Works *as an episode 0 and two seasons. Even later they adapted Heaven’s Feel as three movies.

With all that being said, the BEST way is to read the original VN,at least for the Fate route. The VN got a good remaster (first time officially in English too) this year on Steam.
However, I do understand that not everyone has the time or patience to read such a wordy VN. The two alternatives I can present are either substituting Fate with the Fate/Zero anime, which will leave you with some spoilers and questions, but it’s not too bad. Or you rawdog the Unlimited Blade Works adaptation by ufotable as a starting point, which is less spoilery but probably a bit more confusing at the start. After Unlimited Blade Works, no matter where you started, it makes sense to watch Heaven’s Feel and then, if you didn’t already watch it, Fate/Zero. At that point you should have a broad enough understanding of what Fate is about to be able to enjoy any of the spinoffs without being too lost.

tldr to answer the question: “Where do I even begin?”
best: Read the original VN
otherwise:

1. Fate/Zero (ufotable) (prequel to substitute the missing Fate route adaptation, slight spoilers for HF)
2. FSN Unlimited Blade Works (ufotable)
3. FSN Heaven’s Feel (ufotable, movie trillogy)

or equally good:

1. FSN Unlimited Blade Works (ufotable)
2. FSN Heaven’s Feel (ufotable, movie trillogy)
3. Fate/Zero (ufotable) (prequel was written to be enjoyed after HF, originally)

After that you’re really free to enjoy any Fate universe content. I could make some suggestions but I feel like this comment is getting too long already.

Addendum for people who are interested why Fate/Strange Fake (FsF) is so exciting: FsF is written by Ryohgo Narita of Baccano and Durarara fame. Originally he wrote one chapter as an April Fool’s joke, but the people overseeing the Fate Franchise ended up offering him to write it as a light novel for real. I’ve read most of FsF that came out so far (there’s one final volume scheduled to release in 2025). It is, in my opinion, one of the best Fate works written ever since Nasu’s original VN. This is mostly thanks to Narita being really talented at writing a huge cast of characters and involve so many different viewpoints, which is very cool for a magical battle royale. Starting with FsF for interested newcomers isn’t impossible and it is written with that in mind too, but it is very much something that gets more enjoyable the more the reader/viewer already knows, as there are many characters from other works that make cameos or references.

If anyone’s curious about anything specific or if I was too rambly to be coherent in some places, feel free to reach out.

Small Edit: Ignore all the “timeline of Fate universe” memes. Most of them are inaccurate at best and often misleading. Think of it more like e.g. comic books used to be where MOST works are in similar universes but they don’t need to be consumed sequentially to be enjoyed. For begginers, the only really important sequence is the Fate/Zero -> FSN -> FHA order, and FHA can be safely skipped and F/Z is a prequel that was originally meant to be read after FSN.

Or a wrongly identified item…

My party (PF2E) had a spell scroll they completely misidentified as “Silence”. It was “Noise Blast”. They used it on a stealth mission…

Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.

And then you bring up defederation and/or how instances can die at any time and you lose them again…

At least that’s how it usually goes for me and trying to advertise Lemmy. Not really a fan of “microblogging” to begin with no matter the platform.

People who claim “guys” is gender neutral would most often only count men when asked the question “How many guys did you sleep with in your life?”

Until I find a single person who immediately thinks of people of any gender at that question, I will not fall for the internalized misogyny of “‘guys’ is gender neutral” meme. (Same with “dudes” and all the other ones I’ve seen over the years. I’ve even seen someone say “bro” is gender neutral.)

For sure, that’s why my main accusation is them directing traffic to their bad article (could even be an attempt at getting search engines to associate their article with “android games 2024”) and not the AI stuff. I just started with the AI accusation because it was funny to me when OP and you already talked about AI (in games).

AI or not, the post is poorly written and has little to no informative content.

I do agree with you though, some people through around AI accusations way too quickly. Especially when they spot mistakes. LLMs are very good at NOT making grammatical or syntactical mistakes in English. If anything, those mistakes are often a sign of authenticity.

What games use AI to enrich the user experience? Highly doubting that one.

Even more so, I highly suspect OP is written with anything but AI. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt that they wrote it by hand, it’s very suspicious that their article on mobile games in 2024 has a url that states they’re about 2021 and mentions mostly games from back then. Using the Wayback Machine (I would never give them a click) reveals that it’s (mostly) the same article over all those years with the year in the title updated and some layout changes to fit the layout of the website.

While I cannot say with near certainty that OP is written by AI, I do feel confident saying that this post exists solely to direct traffic to that shitty article.

Osamu Dazai himself

Co-op for sure. I’ve seen all sorts of toxicity in, for example, Vermintide or Helldivers.

It’s not copyright, it’s patents…

(I do also hope that they lose because ingame mechanics being patented is bullshit)

I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?

It’s not a card game, it’s an async autobattler. As long as all the characters are roughly balanced against each other, there’s nothing to be gained other than cosmetics (at the current state of the game).

I’m not sure how fucked up their prompt is (or how unlucky they were). I just did 3 tries and every time it used modulo.

I’m assuming they asked it specifically to either not use modulo or to do a suboptimal way to make this joke.

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